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All You’ll See Is Sky

A Memoir of Tragedy and Redemption in Africa Author: Janet A. Wilson Janet Wilson has had enough of her staid existence – of coloring within the lines, of abdicating her dreams, of the mundanity of daily life and an unexciting marriage. With or without her husband, she is determined to make a 25,000-mile drive across Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo. This time, she’ll answer the call to adventure, the struggle and strife of truly being alive, regardless of what’s smart, what’s responsible, what other people think she can and should do as a woman, a wife, a mother. Along the way, she [...]

2024-07-01T07:36:25-07:00June 29th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , |

California Dreaming

Beautifully Written Debut NovelAuthor: Noa Silver Sometimes, whether we like it or not, our reading time gets disrupted. We start a book, are steaming right along, and something comes along that makes us put it down. In my world, that can be the death knell for that book. I’ll find myself forgetting who the characters are and where I was in their story. 90% of the time, I do not finish those books.Noa Silver’s debut novel California Dreaming lives in the rarefied air of that other 10%. This is the story of Elena, an idealistic young woman setting out after [...]

2025-06-11T00:07:15-07:00June 21st, 2024|Tags: |

Fortune Teller’s Prophecy, The

From Chaos to Calling Author: Lally Pia As a child, a Sri Lankan priest foretold that Lally would be “a doctor of doctors.” The prophecy was a troublesome one, half burden and half embarrassment. Add to this the stress of being the oldest child, the one with the dubious honor of being the first to set an example, to make something of herself, to follow the rules of culture and the rules for a woman. From the beginning of The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy, Lally’s path hardly seemed star studded. If anything, her destiny appeared to be one of frustration and bad [...]

2024-03-11T08:33:19-07:00March 10th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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